Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Glendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company shot in and around Glendale and Silverlake for many years.

Related Topics:
Movie studio - Glendale, California - 1912 - Mack Sennett - New York Motion Picture Company - Silverlake

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The studio is perhaps best remembered now the era under Mack Sennet when he created the slapstick antics of the Keystone Kops and for the "Sennett Bathing Beauties." Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone, when Sennett hired him fresh from his vaudeville career to make silent films. Charlie Chaplin at Keystone Studios is a 1993 compilation of some of the most notable films Chaplin made at Keystone, documenting his transition from vaudeville player to true comic film actor to director. In 1915 Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the Triangle Pictures Corporation with D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince. In 1917 Sennett gave up the Keystone trademark and organized his own company.

Related Topics:
Slapstick - Keystone Kops - Charlie Chaplin - Vaudeville - Silent film - Triangle Pictures Corporation - D. W. Griffith - Thomas Ince

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Many other important actors also began their career at Keystone, including Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Fatty Arbuckle, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and Chester Conklin.

Related Topics:
Harold Lloyd - Gloria Swanson - Raymond Griffith - Ford Sterling - Fatty Arbuckle - Marie Dressler - Mabel Normand - Ben Turpin - Harry Langdon - Chester Conklin

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Sennett, by then a major star, left the studio in 1917 to produce his own independent films (eventually distributed through Paramount). Keystone faded away after his departure, and was finally dissolved after bankruptcy in 1935.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~